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Kerry John Andrews
biography / exhibitions / concerts / performances

Kerry John Andrews is an artist, composer, designer and freelance lecturer in the history of art and in graphic design. He has exhibited continuously since 1983 both in Britain and abroad.

As an artist and composer he works through various media, including drawing, painting, digital media, object and sound based installation, and music, to explore ideas about time and the physical space of the human body and its relation to the mechanical world.

Kerry founded the Forum London Composers Group which promotes and publishes the work of 35 member composers and musicians. He has studied musical composition with Paul Webster and Stephen Montague and performs contemporary music throughout England. He is also a founding member of ADAPT digital artists group.

To facilitate larger creative and digitally based projects he has recently formed Persistent Objects Ltd. He currently works as Sound and Design Manager for COMA.

Selected Exhibitions/ Installations/ Performances
2000
Digital Art 2000, Wiesbaden, Germany
Art Fair, Hamburg, Germany
Art Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Digital Expressions, touring exhibition Wales
Art for the Millennium, Colville Place Gallery, London
Millennium Exhibition, Marks and Spencer Head Office, London
1999
:(to), Colville Place Gallery, London, solo show; www.p-o.co.uk/to
European Banker Technology Fair 99, Frankfurt, Germany
The Contemporary Print Fair 1999, Atlantis Gallery, London
Fragmentation, PaperPoint Gallery, London
1998
Speakers, sound installation, NWAB Arts Science and Technology exhibitions, Mid-Pennine Gallery, Lancashire, solo show
Vital Art 98, Atlantis Gallery, London Art House, London
1997
Ear as Eye, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
1996 Cilntec and Austin Knight, London, corporate exhibitions for Artnet
1994
AAC Exhibition, Connaught Brown Gallery, London `
Rexel Derwent Drawing Exhibition, Cheltenham and Gloucester CHE
1993
Drawings, The Centre Gallery, Covent Garden, London, solo show
Drawings,Tricycle Theatre Gallery, London, solo show
The London Connection, Stansell Gallery, Taunton, Somerset
AAC Exhibition, Connaught Brown Gallery, London
1991 1st International Artists Plener, Oxford and Sutton Courtenay
1990 New Wapping Art Show, Collectors Gallery, London
1988 Untitled, Installation, Unit 7 Gallery, London, solo show
1987 Instalment, 5 British Artists, Plan K Gallery, part of A British Season, Brussels, Belgium
1986
From the Field, Installation, The Showroom, London, solo show
Dialogues, Artists Research Group Haworth Art Gallery, Lancashire
1984 Islanders, Installation, The Showroom, London, solo show
1983 Paintings, Sculpture, Objects, Video, Woodlands Art Gallery, London

Selected Performances (composer)
2000 Piano Field; Lontano (2000), Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, 27/7
1999 for Andrea part 4 (1999), Conway Hall, London, 28/9
1998 for Andrea parts 1&2 (1997-8), BMIC, London
1997 …but the sound… (1997), State of the Nation, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, 16/2,
Brighton Festival, St Johns Church, Brighton; Oxford Contemporary Music Festival, Jacqueline Du Pre Music Building, Oxford
Tuning no 1, (1997), Keep 5, The Arthouse, London, 1/6
Versus (1997), Bretton Hall, Yorks
1996 Quartet no 3 (1996) Bretton Hall, Yorks, 30/7
Informal Music no 1 (1995) and Terremoto (1996) Morley College 31/5
1995 Synthetic Music (1994) and Komputations (1995), Holst Room, Morley College, 16/6
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, COMA Ensemble, 12/9, (performer/ composer)

Concerts/ Broadcasts/ Recordings (performer)
2000
State of the Nation, QEH, South Bank Centre, London, D Gribbin 15/4
Hoxton New Music Festival, London, Cardew, Norgard
1999 State of the Nation, QEH, South Bank Centre, London, P Cashian 11/4
1998
American Music Festival, Barbican Centre, London, Musicircus John Cage, 24/10
ISCM Festival concerts, Manchester, 1/ The Sinking of the Titanic Gavin Bryars
2/ works by Montague, Finnissy, Norgard; RNCM Concert Hall
1997 State of the Nation, Purcell Room, South Bank Centre, London, 16/2
1996 Huddersfield Festival, works by Toovey, Finnissy. 1/12
Brighton Festival fringe concert, 5/6 Spitalfields Festival, 11/6
BMIC, London, solo perf of Epilogue (the Bell), D Penri-Evans, 18/1
1995
Huddersfield Festival, COMA concert; works by Riley, Finnissy, 18/11
BBC R3 broadcast: The Great Learning, Cardew, 17/5
CD recording of Symphony for Voices, D Runswick 1994 1994
ICA, London, Scratch Orchestra 25th anniversary concert, LaMonte Young, Christian Wolff
Spitalfields Festival, London, COMA concert

Education
1997-98 Central Graphics Academy, London, graphic design computer programmes
1995-97 Morley College, London, Music/Sound composition and technology courses
1981-83 University of London Goldsmiths College, MA (CNAA) Fine Art
1976-79 University of Oxford Ruskin School of Drawing, CFA (Oxford)

Lecturing and Design
1999- Sound and Design Manager (p/t) COMA, London
1983-2000 Artist/ Lecturer
Tower Hamlets College, London, visiting lecturer in Digital Art
Central Graphics Academy, London, p/t lecturer in Graphic Design
St Hilda's RC High School and Barden High School, Lancashire
Winchester School of Art, Dept of Art History, Visual Art and Music University of Central Lancashire, Fine Art Multi Media Dept, Visual Art and Music lectures
Oxford Polytechnic, Fine Art Foundation Course, visiting lecturer in drawing
Harrow School of Art, London, Fine Art Sculpture Dept, C20th Art History
Croydon College, London, History of Art and General Studies, Foundation Course
City of London Polytechnic Sir John Cass School of Art, History of Art and General Studies, Foundation and BA courses

Galleries
Colville Place Gallery, 1 Colville Place, London W1
Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden, Germany